Stahl, Georg Ernst

Abstract

Georg Ernst Stahl (1659–1734) was a German physician and chemist, whose animism exerted an enormous influence on European
medical culture for over a century. In his doctrine, the soul fulfils the role of an ideal repository of information acting
on the body in such a way that its physiopathological functions are carried out.

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Bulletin of the History of Medicine
78:
767–803.

Cheung T
(2008)
Regulating agents, functional interactions, and stimulus‐reaction‐schemes: the concept of organism in the organic system theories of Stahl, Bordeu, and Barthez.
Science in Context
21:
495–519.